New Artists

Comments Off on Burnt Out – A North Dublin working class expression of living through the recession

About 1 year ago

Burnt Out is a new project based out of North Dublin. It’s a music project but it’s also a multimedia one made to express “the unfiltered local reality they are set in.” “Working class identity and the unhinged emotional and social violence of the estates set the cornerstone of the message,” they say. The project’s… Read more »

Here’s a fine new track from a new Belfast band. Beauty Sleep are a three-piece made up of Ryan McGroarty (Wonder Villains / A Bad Cavalier), Cheylene Murphy (also of Pleasure Beach) and Aimee Williamson. Debut single ‘The Dark’ has shades of Phoenix, Beach House and occupies the dreamy end of the guitar pop spectrum…. Read more »

Comments Off on Jealous Of The Birds announces debut album & new version of ‘Goji Berry Sunset’

About 2 years ago

Last year, in April, ‘Goji Berry Sunset’, a song from a seven-track EP called Capricorn, from Armagh singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton aka Jealous Of The Birds turned heads. Less than a year later, Hamilton’s lo-fi acoustic whistling Moldy Peaches-style tune has been given a polish for her debut album Parma Violets in April, the only track… Read more »

Comments Off on Luh collaborates with The Haxan Cloak on new I&I single

About 2 years ago

Luh is the newest project from Ellery Roberts, formerly of the band Wu Lyf. Teaming up with Ebony Hoorn, for the band which stands for Lost Under Heaven, resulted in a debut track ‘Unites’ in 2014. They’ve spent the last 18 months working privately and are now ready with new musicc. ‘I&I’ is something sweeter,… Read more »

Comments Off on This Dublin female producer Bad Bones’ new single is deadly

About 2 years ago

Bad Bones is a new Dublin female producer who has promised to release her debut EP this Spring. From the sound of Sal Stapleton’s new single ‘Beg’, Bad Bones is a hugely interesting talent. The song’s chopped and screwed style is paired with a tense house-facing electronic production. There is enough wooziness in the production… Read more »

The new Belgian artist Tsar B released her first track ‘Escalate’ late last year. The song’s chopped and screwed atmospheric electronic style has an Middle Eastern influence with FKA Twigs-style scattered minimal pounding beats. Today, a video shot by Maximiliaan Dierickx in Lisbon accompanies the song. “The hunt of the dark creatures and the fearlessness… Read more »

As someone who spends an inordinate amount of my life seeking out new music and writing about it, it can feel a bit redundant to listicle your daily enterprise. However, I understand that you, dear dear reader, do not have that luxury, so here for you, are 20 new and recently arrived bands (and a… Read more »

‘Beautiful Rain’ is a great song from an 18 year-old from South London called Jude Woodhead and that is a mighty impressive feat you’ll admit, once you press play. Woodhead is a classically-trained trumpet player and an autodidactic pianist and drummer. He’s put that experience to good use on this song, along with his dad’s… Read more »

Comments Off on Foreign Air debut with the Glass Animals-sounding ‘Free Animal’

About 2 years ago

Foreign Air is a new American band from, Jacob and Jessie Clasen (second names unknown) who collaborated between the real world (in New York, North Carolina, California and DC) and online via Dropbox. For their debut single, the pair have hit upon a sound that is close to the muted indie R&B of Glass Animals… Read more »

Comments Off on Premiere: Dublin teen band Bagels show off on debut single ‘To An End’

About 2 years ago

I try not to bemoan the passing of time in life. I’m far from my teenage years even if sometimes I don’t often feel like a proper adult (no-one does right?) but occasionally it’s the experience of new music from a very young band that makes you feel like you’re getting on a bit. Especially… Read more »

Swedish musician Badlands is currently on tour in Ireland with Somadrone as part of the launch gig for his Oracle (stream it here) album. Catharina Jaunviksna has a new album out next year and ‘Carimsou’ is the debut track released from it, a strident synth-pop song with a soft glow, and lyrics that counteract the… Read more »

Eoin Dolan is a Galway city singer-songwriter who aptly quietly released his debut EP Placid Ocean in September last year. The 12-minute EP came to my attention after the it appeareed in a single Youtube video by David Boland of the band New Pope. Inspired by surf pop and the seaside, the free EP has… Read more »

Comments Off on Listen to the debut single from Monaghan secondary school band Litehouse

About 2 years ago

They might still be in school, but that’s not holding back the four lads in Monaghan band Litehouse, who are aiming to make a dent in music. The band recorded their debut single ‘Black Cats’ with Declan Legge at Big Space Studios and it came out last Friday. The song is an impressively melodic and… Read more »

Last year’s Guinness Amplify campaign benefitted some artists who were gifted paid-for recording time. One of which was Crook, who went into the studio to record music with Tommy McLaughlin (Villagers, SOAK) at Attica in Donegal. The output of that recording time is emerging now with a three-track EP, partly inspired by Samuel Beckett, ready… Read more »

After the release of their debut track, ‘Go’ which established their stadium-rock leaning swagger, the Belfast band Pleasure Beach have followed up a successful Hard Working Class Heroes gig with the recorded version of live standout ‘Dreamer To The Dawn’. The song is another close Springsteen / Arcade Fire imprint: a galloping rhythm section, synth… Read more »